It's the Constitution, Stupid! ~ "What really matters is that it is unconstitutional."

It's the Constitution, Stupid!

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Posted on Tuesday, April 12, 2011 10:17:52 AM by jazminerose

We’re having the wrong argument about spending. Of course, we can’t afford the trillions being blown in useless and outright destructive government programs. But, that line of reasoning suggests that when they economy is smokin hot, we really should be paying for self esteem classes for child molesters.
Most government spending is manifestly unconstitutional. Our Founders, in their wisdom, delegated just a few powers to the federal government–essentially, those functions that nobody else could do.
Defending the country, for example, is a legitimate function of the government. Naturally, defense is the only spending liberals are ever willing to cut.
The same people who cannot find a right to keep and bear arms anywhere in the 2d Amendment are resolute in their delusion that a constitutional right to tax payer funded abortion on demand exists.
Liberals are bleating about protecting their pet programs, be it cowboy poetry or imaginary Planned Parenthood mammograms; Republicans keep getting sucked into debates about the worthiness of the program, ignoring the fact that the Constitutional doesn’t allow funding for any of it.

Maybe the world is a better place for having a cowboy poetry festival. Fine. Have it. Just don’t force the taxpayers to surrender their hard earned cash to finance it.
Or kindly point me to the part of the Constitution that allows the government to confiscate money from the citizenry to pay for pig odor analysis.
Whether or not we can pay for all of this nonsense is irrelevant. What really matters is that it is unconstitutional.